"The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room."

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Source : Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

Orhan Pamuk

#Memories Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.”
“I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.”

Source : "Kay Panabaker Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Auditioning, Playing a Teenager, and Shooting at the Salton Sea". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 6, 2012.
“Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.”
“I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.”
“Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.”

Source : Stuart A. Kauffman (2010). “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion”, p.260, Basic Books
“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”
“The media cause more problems than they do good.”
“My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.”

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